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" I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. "
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or The Preservation ... - Page 61
by Charles Darwin - 1870 - 440 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 66

1860 - 894 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a. small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation,...Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to raun's power of selection. Wo have seen that man by selection can certainly produce great results,...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 62

1860 - 860 pages
...word 'selection,' as applied by him to nature, is entirely figurative. ' We have seen,' he observes, 'that man by selection can certainly produce great results, and can adapt organized beings to his own uses through the accumulation of slight but useful variations.' He proceeds...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 15; Volume 23; Volume 45

1863 - 718 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation,...to mark its relation to man's power of selection. It matters not how complex the organs may be, however striking the contrivances, natural selection...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 pages
...selected.' Now that this is the real meaning of this mystery, Mr Darwin frankly acknowledges : ' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (64). This important...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 pages
...selected.' Now that this is the real meaning of this mystery, Mr Darwin frankly acknowledges : ' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (64). This important...
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The Darwinian Theory of the Transmutation of Species

Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 424 pages
...' I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection ' (G4). This important passage reveals to us the motive which prompted Mr Darwin to invent the term,...
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Nature, Volume 36

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1887 - 676 pages
...to \^ preservation oi tliat individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. ... I have called this principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term natural selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection." And who will not recognize...
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What is Darwinism?

Charles Hodge - 1874 - 190 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive.; I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often...
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection ; or, The ...

Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Katural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often...
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Darwin, Carlyle, Dickens, the Fools, Jesters, and Comic Characters in ...

Samuel Davey - 1879 - 302 pages
...many individuals of any species which are periodically born but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often...
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